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People seemed to find my last post on Chimaeron useful, so I thought I’d expand it a bit to cover heroic Chimaeron. The basic timeline for the fight is almost the same as normal (go read about the normal timeline if you aren’t familiar with it).

There is one major change: Nefarian will dispel the Feud and Chimaeron will continue to melee the tanks while the bile-o-tron is offline. Because of this, heroic Chimaeron requires 3 tanks:

Tank 1 – Main tank and Break-soaker while the bile-o-tron is active (this can be a dps like a ret pally, dk or warrior)Tank 2 – Double attack tankTank 3 – Tank for the regular attacks while the bile-o-tron is offline.

Alternatively, Tank 2 and 3 can alternate tanking the whole Feud phase, including the Double Attacks.

If you wanted to do it the other way, Tank 2 would tank the Double Attacks before the Feud, then the entire Feud phase. Once the Bile-o-tron is back online, Tank 3 would tank the next Double Attack and entire Feud phase. Tanks 2 and 3 would switch roles after every Feud phase.

Just like in normal:
1. The first tank (the Break-soaker) will only be tanking while the Bile-o-tron is active. He only needs to be at 10k health while he is tanking.
2. The double-attack tank needs to be topped up before a double-attack.

The Massacre takes the whole raid down to 1 health and the bile-o-tron goes offline. You have 5 seconds to get Tank 3 up to an acceptable level of health before he takes a melee swing.

How do you keep the tank from dying?
1. The tank should use a cooldown
2. Healers should be ready. There are lots of ways to get the tanks health up fast if you plan ahead:

Druids can cast a Rejuvenation on Tank 3 right before the Massacre and Swiftmend immediately after.

Priests can cast PoM on Tank 3 right before the Massacre and a PW:S immediately after.

Shaman can cast an Earth Shield on Tank 3 right before the Massacre.

Paladins can have full holy power and use a Word of Glory on Tank 3 immediately after the Massacre, or Beacon tank 3 and cast Light of Dawn on the raid.

The Massacre has a cast bar – any healer can time a big heal that will land right after the Massacre.

Within 1 GCD of the Massacre the tank can be back up to a decent amount of health and the healers will have another 4 seconds to get them up even higher.

Second trouble spot: the double attack while the bile-o-tron is offline.

The tank will be taking a double attack and a hit from Caustic Slime right around the same time. They will need a damage reduction cooldown, there’s no way around that. They will also need to be close to full health beforehand.

There is a ton of damage going around during the Feud phase, but if you’re ready for it, you can heal it.

The second change to heroic Chimaeron is that the whole raid will be taking damage during phase 2 from Mocking Shadows. This means everyone needs to be topped up as much as possible before he hits 21%.

The best time to push him into phase 2 is at the end of a Feud phase, after the Massacre has happened and the Bile-o-tron has come back online. Though he will continue to melee the tanks, you’ll have 15 seconds before he starts using Caustic Slime again. Use all your big healing cooldowns to get the raid as topped up as possible before pushing him over.